A Queensland magistrate has taken a tough stance after he was asked to impose minimum penalties for drink drivers. It comes as a review of similar cases in the same town exposes a shocking trend.
Two tanks have collided in a military training exercise involving a foreign military near Rockhampton, with 12 people flown by military helicopter.
The blood-soaked face of a driver emerging from a doomed Greyhound coach crash, which killed three and injured dozens near Bowen, can be revealed, unblurred in harrowing images after he appeared in court on Tuesday. *Distressing.
A Central Queensland meatworker is accused of murdering his housemate and the reason why the case has not yet reached a trial has been heard in the Supreme Court.
The body of a man last seen jumping into the Fitzroy River during a police chase has been discovered by people walking late at night and a fisherman. LATEST.
It was members of the public who alerted police to the drunken shenanigans of two women in an Isuzu D-Max on a block of land at the Capricorn Coast.
Cody Smith’s loved ones and co-workers were in court to hear a magistrate decide Ergon Energy would be fined for its role in their electrocutions.
A family feud over a deceased estate has turned ugly with allegations of fraudulent activity, abuse, threats to kill and unsubstantiated claims of financial contributions and extensive labour.
A man suffered broken ribs and was taken to hospital after a car ploughed into a Capricorn Coast resident’s front fence late at night.
A Central Queensland man who had a strict religious upbringing and has since developed a longstanding drug problem, picked the wrong person and place for a meth deal.
A Central Queensland man busted with meth has had a lucky break, avoiding jail despite being on three suspended sentences for drug offending.
A roofer helped prey on teen girls at a Queensland pool before luring them to an apartment where one was plied with drugs and abused. Now, his name and court case details can be revealed.
A father of seven says he was on ice and cannot remember an alleged “extensive and prolonged” violent attack on a woman that police say could have led to her death.
Queensland councils have launched their own war on juvenile crime, putting the blowtorch on “utterly useless’’ government-funded programs.
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